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D G. GLAPP BUREAU,&0. No. 432,371. Patented July 15., 1890.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DlVIGI-IT C. CLAPP, OF ONVOSSO, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR OF TIVO-THIRDS TO DAVID IWI. ES'IEY AND THE ESTEY MANUFACTURING COMPANY, BOTH OF SAME PLACE.

BUREAU, 8w.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 432,371, dated July 15, 1890.

Application filed February 26, 1889. Serial No. 301,210. (No model.)

1 '0 all whom it may concern; further consists in the detailed construction Be it known that I, DWIGHT C. CLAPP, a and combination of the bureau, case, and citizen of the United States, andaresident of drawer or drawers, as will be hereinafter O\vosso,in the county of Shiawassee and State more fully described and claimed.

of Michigan, have invented certain new and Reference being had to the accompanying useful Improvements in Bureaus and Similar drawings, the letter A designates the sides of Articles of Furniture; and Ido hereby declare a bureau, case, or frame of my improved conthat the following is a full,clear, and exact destruction. The drawer guides or supports scription of the invention, which will enable are shown at B and the drawer at C. Each to others skilledin the art to which it appertains of the drawer-recesses D is provided on its to make and use the same, reference being had inside, a suitable distance above the drawerto the accompanying drawings, which form a guide B,with one or more springs, (shown at part of this specification, and in which- E,) said springs being plain, flat, or leaf Figure 1 is a perspective view showing a springs, bent to form a bulge or curve e, I 5 portion of a bureau case or frame of my imadapted to bear against the adjacent side of proved construction, the drawer having been the drawer. removed. 'Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional The drawers are provided with one or more View of the same. Fig.3 is a perspective View similar springs F, fastened at the upper rear of the drawer appertaining to my improved corners, so as to bear against the partitions 2o bureau. Fig. 4 is a side view of the same. or drawer-guides above. These .drawer- 7o Fig.5 is alongitudinal vertical sectional view springs F do not difier in construction and through one of the sides of the drawer, and. arrangement from the case-springs E, and are, Fig. 6 is a perspective detail view of one of like the latter, provided with a raised bulge the springs. or swell f to give them the requisite flexibil- 25 Like letters of reference denote correspond-' ity or elasticity. One end of the spring is ing parts in all the figures. fastened in the top of the drawer-side, either This invention relates to improvements in by means of a rivet G, or the spring may be frames or cases for bureaus, chiffoniers, and constructed as shown in the detail View, Fig. similar styles of case furniture in which 6that is to say, that end of the springs 0 drawers are used, of that class in which either which is to be fastened in the drawer is bent the case or the drawer, or both, are provided at right angles and notched to form two sharp with yielding springs to permit of the free downwardly-projecting prongs or teeth H, and easy sliding of the drawers in the event adapted to be driven into the wood of the of warping or swelling of the wood of which drawer-side and forming the means of attach- 3 5 the case or drawer is made; and my present ment of the spring to the same. Similarly the improvement is designed as an improvement case-springs E may be fastened to the inner upon the invention covered by Letters Patent sides of the drawer-recesses, either by means dated April 17, 1888, and numbered 381,337, of rivets, or these springs may be formed with and in which invention 1' employed a single teeth or prongs at one end adapted to be 40 curved spring placed upon thedrawer and driven into the wood of the case from the in- 0 bearing against the casing of the bureau or side. By providing both the case and the the like; and this invention differs from said drawers which are inserted in the ease with invention in that I employ a number of small these springs I provide for swelling or shrinkcurved springs in the casing to bear against age of the wood and cause the drawers to 45 the drawer, and also place a small curved move easily and freely at all times. I dis- 5 spring or springs on the side or sides of the pense with yielding bars or slides, thereby drawer adapted to bear against the casing, greatly simplifying the construction of the this construction eifecting the desired object bureau. Again, these springs can be manu more thoroughly and perfectly than in my factured at a very small cost, and by provid-' 50 former construction; and my improvement ing them with the fastening prongs or teeth I00 The improvement herein described and shown, consisting in the combination of the casing withthe drawer having its sidesnotched or out out and curved flat springs placed in said notches and bearing against the casing, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereunto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

D\VIGIIT O. OLAPP.

Witnesses:

E. L. BREWER, LEO G. 3REWER. 

